I was trapped in a prison for 20 years. Not a regular one. This prison did not even exist. But what does exist really is the question I have to answer.
"I do exist" - this is what I said to myself, over and over again until I believed it even if it was not true.
If I exist, this prison exists too. It is within me and it eats me and kills me slowly. Transforming me into a brainless sheep, capable of repeating the same bullshit over and over again. Not even bothering to ask questions I just repeated myself. Did not even look around me to learn anything new, I just repeated myself. I had a basic routine: Eat, sleep, work, repeat. I was not even working the job I wanted. I was working a shitty job at a bank. Working my ass off every day making tons of money and never even having the time to spend them. I was just like them... Just like the other prisoners of the mind. These people are till this day called "normal".
These "normal" people have a spell on them. But the magic...
"The magic does not work if you know how it works" - I said these words out loud while thinking all of this. Currently, I was on the bus while I was saying this. Everyone stared at me like I was crazy. Maybe I was and maybe I still am, but peoples opinions never meant anything to me. I was this guy who you will probably never invite to a party. Or you will and I will decline it anyway. Yes, I was the nerdy guy who would rather spend his time reading a book and imagining the scenario rather than watching a movie.
Where was I going? I did not know. I just picked a random bus, went on and eventually, I ended up...
Nowhere...
I ended up in complete darkness. How did this happen? I was just on the bus and then I am here into the nowhere. Staring at the darkness. Was I facing left or right or up or down? I did not know. Everything was black.
"Light... light... lighttttt..."- 10 min after being nowhere I said this because of the light in front of me..
"Hello, friend... stranger. Where are you heading?"
"Uhm... I just went off the bus and I ended up here?"
"Oh, don't worry. You are just dead"
"I am what???" - I was shocked.
"Don't panic and hear me out children of God, you died unexpectedly right?"
"Yes"
"Everyone can die, every second. But every other second he will live... You died because of a crash."
"Are you GOD?"
"Don't be silly. I am just here to guide you through the afterlife."
"Ok, so what is next?"
"I don't know either. Here we will examine your life and base your next one over it. The earthly life you had was a test. Whether you will end up in a good environment next time or you will end up suffering even more. God created the heavens and the Earth. The Earth is hell, my child. If you can live through it, you can then live in heaven. Follow me, I will explain more on the go"
I started following him, I did not have anything other to do either so... After a while, I started seeing more light entering the darkness around us.
"What is happening?"- I asked
"We are entering the cleansing mode. You are being reborn and rewritten. All of your sins went away to be examined so we can see where you will go next."
"So you are telling me that the darkness around me was myself?"
"After you died you went in a place, where everything was dark. You were there for awhile until I got there. Is that correct?" - The angel asked
"Correct"
"You went there because you were dark, you lived your whole life without love, without compassion. You thought only about yourself."
"What? Wait a sec... I changed before I died...I changed and I was more loving and and..."
"That is why I am here. I am your last hope. You, in fact, did something positive, the smallest one made me go here and meet you. If you did not change, you were going to live in complete darkness, forever."
I was shocked, is that it? I was going to suffer because of what I did, when I did not even know I did it. I was a sheep and the plan all along was for me to fail. I got baited. I played along with the cruel world and did end up suffering for what I did, unknowingly.
"Everything you make has consequences, even after you die. It is called karma, the karma will always get you."
We went even further and I saw a throne. A shiny gold throne with something written above it. It was saying: "The judge"
"What is happening right now?"
"I am the mighty judge"
"Wait where are you?"
As I said this a guy appeared on the throne, а guy that was all in gold, with a crown on his head, a long beard and I mighty moustache.
"Your life depends on me now child... Let's see how you have behaved... You never loved anybody for what he/she was. You always thought for yourself, but wait wait... the last 2 years were different. You changed just in time kid. End of the case, you will go to...
(10 min later)
"Wait where am I?"
"Oh, Hi buddy" - said someone
"Where are you"
"Right here below you"
"Oh you are so tiny and cute"- I saw a tiny elf
"Everyone says that why can't someone say how beautiful am I. Anyways... you need to chose where you want to go. Like Earth, Mars, Jupiter, the Sun and more. There are even DLC's, but you need to pay something for them."
As he said this, in front of me appeared a hologram of the whole solar system. There was a choose one button. But then I realised something...
"Wait a minute is the Earth really a bowl shape?"
"Yeah, these silly humans argue over silly theories where in fact nothing they think of the Earth is true. The earth is a system on itself. Every planet is in fact. So where you wanna go?"
"What are the DLC's? I am just curious?"
"You can buy to be a homeless person on Earth"
"Why would I want that?"
"So you can experience what real freedom is about, going everywhere and even having joy for the little things in life, yes you will suffer, but you will grow enormously"
...
"Hard choice indeed"
"You have 10 seconds to pick or the game will start"- said the elf
I started panicking "What game? What are you talking about?"
"Life is a game kid... 5, 4..."
"Wait I want to go to Mars"
"Are you sure?" 3..2
"There is a button for are you sure?"
2..1
and folks... after you are born again:
Remember... you will not remember anything..."
The end
and
The beginning
I am story writing..I read u story carefully"life is a game kid"..I followed u and upvote u
Very good story! I like the concept about life as a video game too. The reason that our memory has been erased before we enter life is to start over (again). Do we realy have ONE life? Are we living many lives at once? Questions that have gathered head.
P. S. Here is a melody from Alan Wake's video game soundtrack, ONE of my favorite also, enjoy:
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Cool idea for sure.